Scholar

Search academic papers and fetch the LEGAL open-access PDF. Use when the user wants to find research papers, do a literature search, get citations / a BibTeX bibliography, find the PDF of a paper, asks "what's the research on X", "find papers about Y", "is there a study on Z", "who cites this", or needs scholarly sources to back a claim. Backed by OpenAlex (250M+ works, no API key) for search + metadata + citations + abstracts + open-access PDF links; downloads only legitimately-free PDFs and writes a BibTeX file. Ships a stdlib scholar.py (browser UI + CLI). NOT Sci-Hub — it uses the legal open-access ecosystem (OpenAlex, arXiv, Unpaywall), which is richer anyway. Compos…